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Select Board

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Wellesley Appoints Hall to Public Works Board, Advances North 40 Conservation Plan

WELLESLEY — June 16, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board unanimously fills a Board of Public Works vacancy and moves to revive a decade-delayed conservation restriction process for the town's 46-acre North 40 property. Meeting jointly with the Board of Public Works, the board voted to appoint Edward "

Wellesley Select Board receives fire station master plan recommending new Weston Road headquarters

WELLESLEY — June 2, 2026 — Wellesley fire master plan calls for new Weston Road headquarters and renovated Station 2. Fire Chief Rick DeLorie and Context Architecture's Jeff Shaw told the Select Board on June 2 that Station 1 is roughly 100 years old, that both existing stations contain only

Select Board hears Fire Station Master Plan, advances annual appointments

WELLESLEY — June 2, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board hears Fire Station Master Plan pointing toward a bigger Station 1. Consultants and fire officials, including former Chief David Soar, told the board Tuesday that the Station 2 headquarters "isn't big enough to handle what would be needed" when

Wellesley Select Board renews $7.5 million Hardy School note, switches parking vendor

WELLESLEY — May 19, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board renews $7.5 million Hardy School borrowing and dumps Plymouth County parking contract. The board voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve a one-year bond anticipation note awarded to Fidelity Capital Markets at a 3.5 percent coupon with a $67,275 premium,

Wellesley Select Board cuts back fee increase, sets May 11 vote on 40 Oakland Street

WELLESLEY — May 5, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board scales back fee hike and previews Special Town Meeting on state housing plan. The board voted 5-0 to raise the demand fee on overdue tax bills from $5 to $10 — half the originally proposed increase — and to keep the standard Municipal Lien

Select Board sends 40 Oakland Street to Town Meeting as three-way advisory vote

WELLESLEY — April 27, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board sets three-way advisory vote on 40 Oakland Street for May 11 Town Meeting. The board voted 5-0, on a motion by Secretary Colette Aufranc and seconded by Vice Chair Tom Ulfelder, to approve motion language letting Town Meeting choose between accepting

Select Board debates motion language for May 11 vote on 40 Oakland Street

WELLESLEY — April 23, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board splits over how to frame 40 Oakland Street question for Town Meeting. With the May 11 Special Town Meeting two and a half weeks out, the board on April 23 weighed three competing drafts on the sale and development of the state-owned

Select Board meeting transcript unavailable; $400,000 snow request was on agenda

WELLESLEY — February 24, 2026 — Wellesley Select Board meeting record unavailable as $400,000 snow request, Town Meeting motions await action. The Wellesley Media transcript of the Feb. 24 Select Board meeting contained only a two-word fragment, leaving no public record of how the board acted on an agenda that